Combined shovel and scraper.



J. N. WILKINS. COMBINED SHOVEL AND SGRAPER. APPLICATION FILED 11116.20,1912.

1,066,562, Patented July 8, 1913.

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JOSEPH N. WILKINS, OF CENTRALIA, WASHINGTON.

COMBINED SIIOVEL AND SCRAPER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 8, 1913.

Application filed August 20, 1912. Serial No. 716,047.

b all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J osnrrr N. IVILKINS, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at (lentralia, in the county of Lewis and State of\Vashiugton, have invented new and useful Improvements in CombinedShovels and Scrapers, of which the following is a specification.

An object of the invention is to provide a combined shovel and scraper.

The invention embodies, among other fea' turcs, a device that can becheaply manufactured and which will be durable and cilicient in useeither as a shovel or as a scraper, the device being held in oneposition when used as a shovel and reversed when used as a scraper.

In the further disclosure of the invention reference is to be had to theaccompanying drawings, constituting a part of this specification, inwhich similar characters of reference denote corresponding parts in allthe views, and in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device; Fig. 2 is a rearelevation; Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse sectional view taken on theline in Fig. 1; and Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the socket plate.

Referring more particularly to the views, use is made of a single pieceof sheet-like material 10 cut and bent to form a back plate 11 and afront plate 12, a handle 13 being provided for engagement with the backplate 11 and the front plate 12 being preferably provided with a bevelededge i l constituting a cutting and scraping edge, the mentioned frontplate 12 being extended forwardl at an angle to the back plate 11 withthe upper extremity of the back plate 11 bent slightly to properlyreceive the handle 13, the rear face of the back plate 11 being alsoprovided with a tapered groove 15 in which the lower tapered end of thehandle 13 is placed. Suitable end plates 10 are preferably riveted tothe back and front plates 11 and 12 respectively, thus forming a shovel17 In order to secure the handle 13 on the back plate 11. a taperedsecuring plate 18, grooved to conform to the taper of the handle, isriveted to the rear of the back plate 1 1. and to the lower face of thefront plate 12, as shown, thus forming a socket 19 with the back plate11 and in which the tapered end of the handle 13 is placed. Grippingcars 20 are preferably formed with the plate 18 and adapted to projectforwardly over the upper edge of the back plate 11 as shown in orderthat the securing plate can be more readily and firmly secured to theplates 11 and 12.

It will now be seen that when the device is in the position shown inFig. 1, the same can be conveniently used as a shovel and when it isdesired to use the device as a scraper the same is turned around so thatonly the scraping edge 1-l of the device will touch the ground. Now byimparting a forward and backward movement to the handle 13 the scrapingedge 14, passing over the ground, will scrape the same in the samemanner that the usual scraper now ordi- .narily employed accomplishesthe desired result.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

In a combined scraper and shovel, a single piece of material bent toform a back plate and a front plate, end plates on the said back plateand front plate, a handle, a securing plate secured to the said backplate and said front plate to form a socket adapted to receive an end ofthe said handle, and ears formed with the said securing plate andprojecting over an edge of the back plate adjacent the said socket.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPH N. \VILKINS.

\Vitncsses E. WINTER, JAMES P. H. OALLAI-IAN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G.

